Parts of Speech

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Ltho the various essays which are now brought together in this book have been written from time to time during the past ten years, nearly all of them have had their origin in a desire to make plain and to emphasize one fact: that the English language belongs to the peoples who Speak it - that it is their own pre clous possession, to deal with at their pleasure and at their peril. The fact itself ought to be obvious enough to all of us; and yet there would be no difficulty in showing that it is not every where accepted. Perhaps the best way to pre sent it so clearly that it cannot be rejected is to draw attention to some of its implications; and this 18 what has been attempted in one or another of these separate papers.